19-year-old Justin Nojan
Sullivan from Morgantown was reported by his own parents in April
2015, after they found him trying to burn Buddhist religious
items in apparent support for Islamic State. After that, FBI
started to track Sullivan, and an undercover agent contacted
him.

When talking with the agent, Sullivan identified himself as an
Islamic convert and a "mujahid", or Islamic holy warrior. The FBI
says that he then invited the agent to join "The Islamic State of
North America."

He shared his dream of killing as many as 1,000 Americans,
according to the criminal complaint filed against him. He planned
to start with a few "minor" assassinations and send videos to the
Islamic State. His plan also included the murder of his own
parents.

To that end, the complaint states, Sullivan intended to buy an
AR-15 rifle at a gun show, and asked the undercover agent to send
him a homemade silencer.

Sullivan was arrested on June 19, after receiving the silencer
that the agent had sent to him through the mail.

Sullivan could now face up to 40 years in prison: 20 for
providing material support to Islamic State, and another 20 for
two firearm charges, including the use of an unlicensed silencer.

Sullivan is but the latest in a slew of potential Islamic State
recruits recently arrested in the US. At least four men were
arrested in June only, with the most common charges against them
being attempting to provide material support to the terrorist
group or traveling to Syria to join it.

One of the most significant of the detentions was that of Abdul
Malik Abdul Kareem, 43, from Phoenix, arrested in connection with
the shooting at the resonant Draw Muhammad event in Texas in
early May, which left one security officer injured.